Siebenbürger Sachsen
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/190043
- Name (English)
- Siebenbürger Sachsen
- Short name
- Transylvanian Saxons
- Short Description
- "The Transylvanian Saxons (German: Siebenbürger Sachsen; Transylvanian Saxon: Siweberjer Såksen; Romanian: Sași ardeleni, sași transilvăneni/transilvani; Hungarian: Erdélyi szászok) are a people of German ethnicity who were settled in Transylvania (German: Siebenbürgen) in waves starting from the mid-12th century until the late Modern Age (more specifically mid 19th century).
The legal foundation of the settlement was laid down in the Diploma Andreanum issued by King Andrew II of Hungary that is known for providing the first Territorial Autonomy hitherto in the history. The Transylvanian "Saxons" originally stemmed from Flanders, Hainaut, Brabant, Liège, Zeeland, Moselle, Lorraine, and Luxembourg, then situated in the north-western territories of the Holy Roman Empire around the 1140s." - (en.wikipedia.org 13.12.2021) - Entity Encoding
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